Your Kid’s Apps Are Crammed With Ads
Nellie Bowles,
New York Times,
Nov 01, 2018
Advertising is the original fake news. "The vast majority of ads were not marked at all. Characters in children's games gently pressured the kids to make purchases, a practice known as host-selling, banned in children's TV programs in 1974 by the Federal Trade Commission. At other times an onscreen character would cry if the child did not buy something." There's no difference between this and the army of Twitter bots driving conversation about the caravan.
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